Tag: okra

The sweet taste of vegetables at their peak during the warm summer months are featured in this deliciously light and flavorful Southern classic okra dish. Okra corn and tomato gumbo done vegan with all meaty influences removed from the traditional version, so that the sweet crisp tastes of fresh corn and tomatoes shine through.

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Tweet #vegan Vegan burgers are a staple in both a transitioning and long-time vegan’s life. Vegan burgers can be made from a wide variety of plant-based combinations of ingredients, and are surprisingly easy to make as well as delicious. For those with busy schedules, vegan burger patties can made in made ahead in large quantities […]

Vegan kimbap takes a bit of time to prepare with all the cutting and julienning and sauteeing you must do before the rolling begins. But trust me, the end result is totally worth it. We swapped the traditional beef or fishcake for marinated wood ear mushrooms in this tasty, plant-based version of a Korean favorite. Bring your vegan kimbap to the next potluck or work event, and see how impressed everyone is with your kitchen genius! You can thank me later.

Adopting a vegan lifestyle or plant-based diet means giving up seafood as well as meat. But that doesn’t mean you have to give up the flavors of seafood, just be a bit more creative with ingredients. There’s nothing that omnivores eat that cannot be veganized, and these ridiculously delicious, easy to make vegan crab cakes prove it.

My friends and family know about my dislike of salads and have been known to make jokes about it. However, I now have a secret weapon to conquer my fear of salad. I love red onions, and I love garlic. So the two together created a delicious flavor explosion in my mouth that I just have to share.

Tweet #vegan One of the things vegans miss most when transitioning is cheese. And though most vegan cheeses aren’t QUITE the same as cow or goat milk based cheeses, there are many commercial brands and some home made versions which definitely fill the void. In the Test Kitchen this week we checked out the homemade […]

Just this week an online acquaintance forwarded me a recipe to try in The Test Kitchen for mac and cheese that she found online at Vegan Yumminess. The sender was raving about the fabulousness of this mac and cheese, which I have to admit got my attention. Here’s the result of this week’s Test Kitchen experiment for vegan mac and cheese.

This week in The Test Kitchen we do The Vegan Zombie’s seitan recipe and give it 7.5 to 8 stars. The part I didn’t like was burning my oven for two hours to cook four patties of wheat meat. Dude, who is gonna pay this electricity bill? The Zombie Apocalypse probably won’t happen before it’s due.

An easy to make Veggie Ribs Meatless BBQ Rib Mix was put to the test this week. We were surprised that such a modestly priced mix passed our taste test for vegans and omnis with flying color and a five-star rating.